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Show Queen Victoria and Politics. For some years after Queen Victoria Victo-ria succeeded the Whigs were the al-1,08 al-1,08 of tlle sovereign; the Tories were her antagonists. In 1S4-J the quee-i ia a letter to Prince Albert, expressed her party preference with the utmost i candor "The Tori.-,-.- she ,vrote "are really v.ry astonishing; as they cannot and dare not alt.tck us in parliament, par-liament, they do everything t.iev can I to be oerson.nilv n,,i v .... . - i ue j U,,,SS. the ietter ran. "are the only , safe and loyal peepl. the Radicals will also rally round their oueen to I protect her from the Tories; but it . is a curious sight to see those who. j as Tories, used to pique themselves ; "lion their excessive loyaltv doing ev- r'lhing to degrade their .- ,.s sover- eign m the eyes of the people." So closely did the queen associate her-I her-I self with the Whigs that she regarded. I a dissolution as an event directly af-! af-! fecting her credit and position. |